(SPEC) Iris furcata Bieb.
1819, Botanical author Bieberstein
'Furcata' (Fredriech August Marschall von Bieberstein, 1819, Caucasus, Moldavia, and Southern Ukraine)
Section Iris. Either a variant of
Iris aphylla or a distinct species. Distinguished by stems branching above the middle with smaller, deeper purple flowers of a better shape then
Iris aphylla.
Iris furcata Bieb. in Cent. Pl. Ross. ii. t. 51. or Fl. Taur. Cauc. 3: 42. 1819.
Chromosome count 2n=24, Randolph and Mitra 1961.
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